Piotr Gutman

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Piotr Gutman (born June 30, 1941 in Biskupice ) is a former Polish boxer . He was vice European champion in 1961 and took 5th place in the featherweight division at the 1964 Olympic Games.

Career

Piotr Gutman started boxing as a teenager at WKS Gornik Biskupice with coach Jan Krautwurst. He learned the trade of a technician. He was southpaw and was already in 1959 at the age of 18 for the first time Polish champion in the bantamweight seniors (up to 54 kg body weight). He was able to hold this weight class until 1960. In 1961 he switched to featherweight (up to 57 kg body weight). As early as 1959 he was accepted into the Polish national team of amateur boxers and came into the hands of the legendary Polish national coach Feliks Stamm, who formed him into a boxer who stood on the threshold of world class.

Piotr Gutman later also started for the LTS Łabędy club . In Poland he fought in his weight classes primarily with Brunon Bendig and Jerzy Adamski for supremacy.

In 1960 he was absent from the Polish championship due to injury and so had no opportunity to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rome . In 1961 he suffered a tech at the Polish featherweight championship. Knockout loss in the 3rd round against Jaroslaw Kulesza. He was nominated by Feliks Stamm for the European championship this year in Belgrade for the bantamweight and prepared specifically for this championship. In Belgrade he then showed excellent performances and defeated Eddy Treacy from Ireland , Peter Bennyworth from England and Niculae Puiu from Romania on points. In the final, however, he was defeated by the Soviet champion Sergei Siwko on points and thus took 2nd place at this European championship.

In 1962 Piotr Gutman won international battles against the FRG in Würzburg over Otto Schröck from Schweinfurt through techn. KO in the 2nd round and in Berlin (East) he also defeated the GDR champion Wolfgang Huebner, who got by against him and only lost on points.

In 1963 Piotr Gutman won his second Polish championship title. In the final fight of the featherweight he defeated Jozef Drucis on points. at the European Championships this year he was not used.

1964 Piotr Gutman lost in the Polish championship in the final battle against Jerzy Adamski on points, but was still used at the Olympic Games in Tokyo . The decisive factor for this was probably his point victory over the Russian master Stanislaw Stepanowitsch Stepaschkin in an international match against the Soviet Union in Moscow . In Tokyo he narrowly missed a medal, because he lost after victories over Patrick Fitzsimmons from Ireland and Masatake Takyama from Japan in the quarter-finals against the largely unknown Anthony Villanueva from the Philippines and only came in 5th place.

In 1965 he lost in Glasgow in an international match against Scotland against the Scottish Ken Buchanan, who later became a professional boxer, on points. In 1966, Piotr Gutman won his third and last Polish championship title with a non-fighting victory in the featherweight final over the injured Henryk Mielczewski. In 1966 he started at the championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact states in Budapest and suffered a knockout defeat in the first round in the final against Stanislaw Stepaschkin, who became Olympic champion in 1964 .

In 1967 he ended his career as an active boxer and became a coach. He trained u. a. the associations AWF Wrocław , LTS Labedy , Gornik Knurow and Walce Zabrze . He had contested 218 fights, of which he won 196. He fought twice and lost 20 fights.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = feather weight, up to 54 kg or 57 kg body weight)

  • 1959, 1st place , tournament of the newspaper "Trybuny Ludu" in Warsaw , Ba;
  • 1961, 1st place , tournament of the newspaper "Trybuny Ludu" in Warsaw, Fe;
  • 1963, 1st place , tournament of the newspaper "Trybuny Ludu" in Warsaw, Fe;
  • 1964, 5th place , OS in Tokyo , Fe, with a point victory over Patrick Fitzsimmons, Ireland a. a knockout win in the 3rd round over Masatake Takayama, Japan and a point loss to Anthony Villanueva , Philippines ;

Polish championships

  • 1959, 1st place, Ba,
  • 1961, 3rd place, Fe, according to techn. Knockout loss in the 3rd round in the semifinals against Jaroslaw Kulesza,
  • 1962, 2nd place, Fe, after a point defeat in the final against Jerzy Adamski ,
  • 1963, 1st place, Fe, with a point victory in the final over Jozef Drucis,
  • 1964, 2nd place, Fe, after a point defeat in the final against Jerzy Adamski,
  • 1966, 1st place, Fe, after a non-fighting victory in the final over Henryk Mielczewski

International battles

  • 1959 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia against Poland , Ba, point defeat against Stevan Paljic ,
  • 1959 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia against Poland, Ba, points win over Stevan Paljic,
  • 1960 in Berlin (East), GDR against Poland, Ba, KO victory 1st round over Rothe,
  • 1961 in London , England against Silesia , Fe, points victory over Johnny Head,
  • 1961 in Katowice , Poland against Hungary , Fe, point victory over Varga,
  • 1962 in Würzburg , FRG against Poland, Fe, tech. KO victory 2nd round over Otto Schröck,
  • 1962 in Bydgoszcz , Poland against Ghana , Fe, points victory over Aaron Popoola,
  • 1962 in Berlin (East), GDR against Poland, Fe, points victory over Wolfgang Huebner,
  • 1963 in Bucharest , Romania against Poland, Fe, point defeat against Andres Olteanu,
  • 1963 in Poznań , Poland against GDR, Fe, point defeat against Bernd Drgalla,
  • 1963 in Schwerin , GDR against Poland, Fe, point defeat against Bernd Drgalla,
  • 1963 in Warsaw , Poland against FRG, Fe, points winner over Paul Budde,
  • 1964 in Moscow , USSR against Poland, Fe, points winner over Stanislaw Stepanowitsch Stepaschkin
  • 1965 in Glasgow , Scotland against Poland, Fe, point defeat against Ken Buchanan ,
  • 1965 in Dublin , Ireland against Poland, Fe, points win over Terry Ryrell,
  • 1965 in Warsaw, Poland against England, Fe, points victory over Ron Russell

swell

  • Box Sport magazine ,
  • Website "www.amateur-boxing.strefa.pl",
  • Website "www.sport-komplett.de",
  • Website "www.Pkol.pl"

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Gutman, Piotr
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish boxer
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Biskupice